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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"East Sussex"”.
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Late-quaternary environmental change at Eastbourne, East Sussex
… of the late-Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the Eastbourne area, The principal techniques employed are pollen, Foraminifera, Ostracoda, Mollusca and sediment particle size analyses. The lithostratigraphic investigation, using hand auger and a commercial drilling rig, revealed extensive …
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An evaluatory study of the methods used in the reconstruction of historical vegetation and land-use, with reference to part of East Sussex, England
… from a strictly circumscribed study area on eastern Pevensey Levels, Sussex. The evidence principally includes lithostratigraphy, the analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils (supported by radiocarbon dating) and mineralogy, and primary and secondary documentary sources. The local …
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The use of joint probability analysis to predict flood frequency in estuaries and tidal rivers
… is assessed for a case study area of Lewes, East Sussex, UK, a town which is prone to both tidal and fluvial flooding. Bivariate and trivariate daily and extreme joint exceedance methods are developed and used in conjunction with a one-dimensional hydraulic model to analyse the interaction of …
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A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
… village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was reported and documented per the Treasure Act (1996). In 2012, it was disclaimed as treasure, returned to the finder and sold to a private collector. The object is …
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The Electric: a novel and critical commentary investigating narrative disruption in sign language, cinemagoing, and trauma
… of a death on three generations of a family in East Sussex. The accompanying critical commentary analyses the impact of interdisciplinary research on the creative process, showing how the novel engages with and reflects narrative disruption – a common theme of research in the fields of British …
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Illustrating Northeye: An Exploration of Time, Matter, and Movement at a Historic Wetland Site
… part of the Ramsar wetland Pevensey Levels, East Sussex, this transformative landscape has become a vehicle to critically respond to Embury and Minichiello’s definition of the reportage illustrator as ‘a particular kind of visual journalist, capturing the dynamics of unfolding events through …
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Heritage tourism and English national identity
… focuses upon three sites, Battle Abbey in East Sussex, Hever Castle in Kent and Chartwell, also in Kent. The primary research methods are ethnographic. A triangulation of methods are employed including: the review and analysis of books, documents, published and unpublished material relating …
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Exploring the social use of space using principles of relativity.
… houses tested against were Black Patch (East Sussex, England), Catpund (Shetland, Scotland), Sollas (North Uist, Scotland), Stenness House 1, 3, 6 and 10 (Orkney, Scotland). This thesis found that with transformations by both relativity and SCM, the strongest correlations for Kilpheder …
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The magnetostratigraphy of Coniacian-Late Campanian chalk sequences of Southern England
… Bay (Isle of Wight) and Seaford Head, East Sussex are presented. The sections range in age from Latest Turonian to early Late Campanian and consist of white chalk with flints. Hand samples and large volume rock cores have been collected. Both thermal and AF demagnetisation have been …
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Castles and Communities: Using the taskscape to explore the attitudes, activities, and lived experience of wider communities in castle landscapes between 1050 - 1550.
This thesis utilises the concept of the taskscape to explore the impact of the medieval castle in England on lived experiences in the landscapes surrounding them between 1050 to 1550. Recent shifts in the focus of castle studies have demonstrated the need to focus on castles as sites of everyday …